Purpose | Environmental Initiatives

We create a range of waste streams from our retail operations and warehousing. The majority is cardboard and soft plastics from our suppliers and products sold in stores. Recycling services available vary between locations and we are working with our suppliers to decrease the volume of non recyclable packaging where possible.

Cardboard & Paper

All our stores have paper and cardboard recycling that reduces future energy needs, avoids landfill and helps conserve our limited natural resources.

Soft Plastics

All stores in VIC, SA, TAS and NSW and some stores in QLD have soft plastic recycling in place. Currently there is no soft plastic recycling available to our stores in ACT, WA and parts of QLD. 

Tyre & Tube Recycling

All stores in VIC, SA, WA, NSW, ACT and some stores in QLD have tyre recycling in place. VIC and WA are also able to recycle inner tubes at local facilities. This helps to reduce landfill and the rubber is re-used to create new products like athletics tracks and playgrounds or is broken back down into its usable components.

Metals

Our workshops recycle metal components in VIC, WA, SA, NSW, ACT and in some QLD locations.  This allows these products to be reused, keeping them from landfill. We are working towards having metal recycling in all workshops

Upcycling old bicycles. Through our Donate Your Old Bike Program we partner with local community groups to give old bikes new life. This makes it easy for customers to trade in old bikes, ensuring they are either donated and upcycled to those in need or responsibly recycled, a win-win for riders, the community, and the environmen

South Australia
Partnering with Lighthouse Youth Projects Inc, a community workshop that strives to empower all youth, especially those who are vulnerable and are at-risk, to achieve their full potential through bike based programs and workshops. More about Lighthouse Youth Project Inc

Western Australia
Partnering with Bicycles For Humanity, a charity that repairs donated bicycles and send them to NGO partners in Africa or to communities in remote WA to help alleviate poverty through sustainable transport. More about Bicycles For Humanity.

NSW & ACT
Partnering with Revolve Recycling, a charity started to strengthen bike equity through the distribution of bikes to disadvantaged kids. They aim to recover, recycle and redeploy Australia’s bikes, scooters and other personal transport vehicles and employ people from disadvantaged backgrounds. More about Revolve Recycling.

Victoria
Partnering with Brainwave Australia, a new Melbourne based social enterprise to donate, recycle and reuse bikes while providing employment and traineeships for people with a disability and raising money for Brainwave Australia. More about Brainwave Australia

Queensland
Partnering with the Sunrise Surfers Wheelchair Trust an Australian registered charity based on the Gold Coast that transforms donated bicycles into “rough-terrain” wheelchairs for disadvantaged people—particularly children—in under-resourced countries. More about Sunrise Surfers Wheelchair Trust.

Trialling a partnership with The Salvation Army, who raises money to help disadvantaged Australians without discrimination, including people who are hungry, homeless, abandoned or abused.  They resell upcycled bikes in their Salvation Army stores and send bikes that need to be fixed to their workshop or recycle bikes that cannot be resold or repaired. Learn more about the Salvation Arm Re-Cycle Workshop here and  Learn more about The Salvation Army.

The 99 Green Team is a group of everyday people who are sponsored by 99 Bikes to ride to work. The team’s aim is to help relieve traffic congestion, improve the sense of community between riders and motorists, cut carbon emissions and promote a healthy lifestyle. In FY25 we sponsored 9 riders as part of the Green Team who completed 636 rides, travelling 7,245 kilometres.

In FY25 we measured our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. Over the coming years we are committed to measuring and reducing our Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions and are working towards improving our data quality and continuing to increase our usage of solar and renewable energy.  It is also our goals to use 100% renewable energy at our suits by the end of 2026